Not for: Not a tool that switches camera angles for you. You choose the angles; the prep here makes lining them up and choosing between them easier.
Plan the angles before the day
Decide what each camera is for. A wide that never moves, a close camera on the couple and a roaming camera for faces in the crowd is a common split for a ceremony. Write it down for the team, with who covers which moment, so two operators are not both on the same face while the parents’ reaction goes unfilmed. Angles that have a job are easier to choose between later.
Match the clocks
Set every camera and audio recorder to the same time before the first event, and check them each morning. Clips then sort into the order of the day in any editor, and two angles of one moment sit near each other on the timeline. It is the cheapest sync there is, and it saves a search through hours of footage for the moment the garlands were exchanged.
Give yourself a sync mark
At the start of each ceremony, with every camera rolling, make one sharp sound: a clap, a slate, or a tap on a microphone. It leaves the same spike on every camera’s audio and every recorder, and you line the angles up on that spike by hand. If a camera stops and starts, make the sound again. A sync mark takes a second at the venue and settles any doubt later.
A recorder for every voice that matters
Camera microphones hear the room. The vows, the officiant or pandit and the speeches deserve their own recorder or a lapel microphone, started before the moment and left running. Put those files beside the camera that filmed the same moment. In the reel, a line of the vows you keep is heard with the song ducked under it, and clean sound is what makes that line worth keeping.
Name and keep the files where they are
Copy each card into a folder named for the day, the event and the camera, and keep the audio recorder files beside them. Rename folders rather than camera files, so each clip stays traceable to its card. Then leave the folders where they are: Vantacut reads clips from where they sit on your drive rather than copying them, like most editors, and moving them later is how projects lose footage.
Proxies and the first cut
Several angles of 4K make a heavy timeline. Vantacut makes light proxies of heavy footage, so playback stays smooth while you line angles up, and export still renders from your originals at full resolution. Auto-Edit chooses moments from every clip you import, so it can pick a moment from any camera. Walk the reel afterwards and swap a shot for a better angle of the same moment where you prefer it: the reel is ordinary clips, so a swap is an ordinary edit.
Your footage stays on your computer
Editing, playback and export run on your computer, and your original footage and songs never leave it. To find moments, Auto-Edit shares low-quality copies of your clips, still frames and the speech, and the app asks once before anything is sent. The editor works worldwide, in English; credit packs are priced in Indian rupees.
Questions
Does Vantacut sync my cameras?
Line the angles up yourself on the timeline, using a clap or a sharp sound as the mark. Auto-Edit chooses moments from every clip you import, but the angle you keep for a moment is your call.
Do I need proxies for a multicam wedding?
Heavy footage gets light proxies in Vantacut, so playback stays smooth while you line up several angles. Your originals are still what you export from.
How many audio recorders does a wedding need?
One for each voice that must be heard clearly: the couple at the vows, the officiant or pandit, and the speeches. Camera microphones are a backup, not the plan.
Get the editor
Windows and Linux now; macOS is coming. The editor is free; create your account when it first opens.